{"id":2273,"date":"2021-01-13T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T12:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1333978"},"modified":"2021-01-13T12:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T12:48:33","slug":"telegram-grew-its-active-user-base-by-110-in-india-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2273","title":{"rendered":"Telegram grew its active user base by 110% in India last year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While Telegram might be gaining a lot of users this year due to <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/facebook\/2021\/01\/06\/heres-what-that-whatsapp-privacy-policy-pop-up-means-for-you\/\">WhatsApp\u2019s controversial privacy policy update<\/a>, the app was already impressive growth in 2020 in India.<\/p>\n<p>According to analytics firm App Annie, Telegram\u2019s monthly active users increased by 110%&nbsp; \u2014 in a 600 million internet user market \u2014and made it the fastest growing social app in the country. WhatsApp was second in the growth list, followed by Instagram and short video apps MX Takatak and Moj. Both these apps launched last year following <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/in\/2020\/06\/29\/india-bans-59-chinese-apps-including-tiktok-and-helo\/\">TikTok\u2019s ban in the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-featured_img wp-image-1333990 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-13-at-5.45.26-PM-796x436.png\" alt width=\"796\" height=\"436\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-13-at-5.45.26-PM-796x436.png 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-13-at-5.45.26-PM-280x154.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-13-at-5.45.26-PM-492x270.png 492w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-13-at-5.45.26-PM-246x135.png 246w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-13-at-5.45.26-PM.png 859w\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/plugged\/2021\/01\/13\/telegram-grew-its-active-user-base-by-110-in-india-last-year\/#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fplugged%2F2021%2F01%2F13%2Ftelegram-grew-its-active-user-base-by-110-in-india-last-year%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Fastest growing social app in India 2020\" data-title=\"Share Fastest growing social app in India 2020 on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Fastest growing social app in India 2020 on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>Fastest growing social app in India 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>This means Telegram starts the year with an impressive foothold in India \u2014 with more than 115 million active users \u2014 and it might only increase as more people might turn their back on WhatsApp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite this, WhatsApp still rules the messaging game in India with more than 400 million monthly active users, and it\u2019ll be a tough task to get anywhere near that figure.<\/p>\n<p>App Annie\u2019s state of mobile 2021 report suggests that like the rest of the world, Indians spent a lot of time on their phone due to the pandemic \u2014 4.6 hours per day on average as compared to 3.3 hours per day in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of downloads, Facebook\u2019s family of apps still top the chart. However, the short video app Snack snuck into third place, before it was <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/technology\/india-bans-43-more-mobile-apps-including-snack-video-for-being-prejudicial-to-indias-sovereignty\/videoshow\/79390085.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">banned in November<\/a>. Also, despite being booted out of the Play Store and App Store in July, TikTok managed to grab the fifth position in downloads.<\/p>\n<p><i>Did you know we have a newsletter all about consumer tech? It\u2019s called Plugged In \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/thenextweb\/newsletter\">and you can subscribe to it right here<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published January 13, 2021 \u2014 12:48 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/plugged\/2021\/01\/13\/telegram-grew-its-active-user-base-by-110-in-india-last-year\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Telegram might be gaining a lot of users this year due to WhatsApp\u2019s controversial privacy policy update, the app was already impressive growth in 2020 in India. 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